Isaiah 13:16
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16 Their infants will be dashed to pieces
before their eyes;
their houses will be plundered
and their wives raped.(A)
Nahum 3:10
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10 Yet she became an exile;
she went into captivity;
even her infants were dashed in pieces
at the head of every street;
lots were cast for her nobles;
all her dignitaries were bound in fetters.(A)
Hosea 10:14
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14 therefore the tumult of war shall rise against your people,
and all your fortresses shall be destroyed,
as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle,
when mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.(A)
Psalm 137:8-9
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8 O daughter Babylon, you devastator![a]
Happy shall they be who pay you back
what you have done to us!(A)
9 Happy shall they be who take your little ones
and dash them against the rock!(B)
Footnotes
- 137.8 Or you who are devastated
Zechariah 14:2
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2 For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped; half the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city.(A)
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Lamentations 5:11
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11 Women are raped in Zion,
young women in the towns of Judah.(A)
Isaiah 13:18
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18 Their bows will slaughter the young men;
they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb;
their eyes will not pity children.(A)
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